Petrarch

Petrarch
Petrarch
Born	20 Julie 1304; Arezzo, Italy
Dee'd	19 Julie 1374 (aged 69); Arquà, Italy
Thrift	Scholar, poet
Naitionality	Italian
Period	Early Renaissance
Leeterar muivement	Renaissance humanism
Bairns	Giovanni (1337–1361); Francesca (born in 1343)
Relatives	Eletta Canigiani (mither); Ser Petracco (faither)

Francesco Petrarca (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]; 20 Julie 1304 – 19 Julie 1374), commonly anglicised as Petrarch, wis an Italian scholar an poet in Renaissance Italy, an ane o the earliest humanists. His rediskivery o Cicero's letters is eften creditit wi ineetiatin the 14t-century Renaissance. Petrarch is eften conseedert the foonder o Humanism.^[1] In the 16t century, Pietro Bembo creatit the model for the modren Italian leid based on Petrarch's warks, as weel as thae o Giovanni Boccaccio, an, tae a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri.^[2] Petrarch wad be later endorsed as a model for Italian style bi the Accademia della Crusca.

Petrarch's sonnets war admired an imitatit ootthrou Europe in the Renaissance an becam a model for lyrical poetry. He is an aw kent for bein the first tae develop the concept o the "Daurk Ages."^[3]

References

↑ This designation appears, for instance, in a recent review Archived 2012-10-25 at the Wayback Machine o Carol Quillen's Rereading the Renaissance.
↑ In the Prose della volgar lingua, Bembo propones Petrarch an Boccaccio as models o Italian style, while expressin reservations aboot emulatin Dante's uissage.
↑ Renaissance or Prenaissance, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 4, No. 1. (Jan. 1943), pp. 69–74; Theodore E. Mommsen, "Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'" Speculum 17.2 (April 1942: 226–242); JSTOR link to a collection of several letters in the same issue.

4. Massimo Colella, «Cantin le ninfe co’ soavi accenti». Per una definizione del petrarchismo di Veronica Gambara, in «Testo», 2022.

[1] This designation appears, for instance, in a recent review Archived 2012-10-25 at the Wayback Machine o Carol Quillen's Rereading the Renaissance.

[2] In the Prose della volgar lingua, Bembo propones Petrarch an Boccaccio as models o Italian style, while expressin reservations aboot emulatin Dante's uissage.

[DarkAges-3] Renaissance or Prenaissance, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 4, No. 1. (Jan. 1943), pp. 69–74; Theodore E. Mommsen, "Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'" Speculum 17.2 (April 1942: 226–242); JSTOR link to a collection of several letters in the same issue.

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